Garvin Thomas

Garvin Thomas Snell, known professionally by his screen name Garvin Thomas is a television journalist currently with NBC Bay Area, KNTV, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a reporter, photographer, editor, and sometimes fill-in anchor. He is in charge of the Bay Area Proud franchise, which "profiles the people, the groups, and the companies making the Bay Area, and the world, a better place to live." Prior to joining NBC Bay Area, Thomas had worked in Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and overseas in Berlin, Germany. He also attended the Universitat Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany, for one year.

Professional career His stories are produced under KNTV's banner.

Since debuting the Bay Area Proud franchise in 2013, Garvin has produced more than 500 stories. Some highlights among those are stories about a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis being given a dream wedding, a 12-year-old who created a low-cost Braille printer out of Lego, and an Oakland man using illegally dumped trash to create small homes for the homeless.

Thomas has experience throughout multiple aspects of television journalism. According to his bio, he "started out at NBC Bay Area as a general assignment reporter, but his responsibilities and skills have grown over the years." He is versatile as a writer, reporter, photographer, editor and fill-in anchor. He "also shoots and edits all his own stories."

Awards Garvin has won multiple national, regional, and local awards for both his reporting and photography. 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award, Region 2, Writing 2016 Northern California Emmy Award: Writer 2016 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist – No Time Limit 2016 Edward R. Murrow Award, Region 2, Writing 2016 Gabriel Award – Short Feature 2015 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist – No Time Limit 2015 National Press Photographers Association 2015 Best Of Photojournalism 1st and 2nd place, Solo Video Journalist – Feature 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award, Region 2 – Writing 2014 Gabriel Award – Short Feature 2014 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist – No Time Limit 2013 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award – Feature Reporting (Markets 1–50) 2013 Northern California Emmy Award: Feature News Report – Light Series 2013 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist – No Time Limit

Currently, Garvin and his wife live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with their three children.